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Community-Academic Partnership to Improve the Oral Health of Underserved Schoolchildren in Rural North Carolina
Dental care is is the most common chronic illness for children. Caries can reduce the quality of life, cause missed classroom hours, and decrease cognition. Strategies to improve children’s oral health must be evidence-based, developed, and implemented in consultation with communities.
A Technical Assistance Curriculum for Expanding Sustainable School-Based Oral Health Programs in the Carolinas’ Dental Safety Net
School-based oral health programs (SBOHPs) provide opportunities to address oral health inequities by providing convenient access points for care. No published guidelines on SBOHP implementation existed. Our work describes how philanthropic, public, and academic organizations partnered to support dental safety net providers with designing comprehensive SBOHPs in North and South Carolina.
Using a Collective Impact Model in Communities to Improve the Physical Environment
The physical environment—the places where individuals live, work, and play—can cause or prevent serious health conditions including chronic diseases and obesity. In North Carolina, the Collective Impact Model serves as the foundation on which multisector community coalitions can address environmental and policy barriers for improved health.
A Multi-Year Evidence Building Partnership: The Duke Endowment Summer Literacy Initiative
This March 2022 report by Project Evident shows how The Duke Endowment is using evidence to build and scale a summer literacy program in rural communities.
2021 Annual Report: Drawing Strength
Last year saw a host of new challenges. Even as vaccines were made available and infection rates were going down, the impact of COVID-19 was devastating. Amid all the struggles, however, we have continued “Drawing Strength” from the will and determination that countless individuals have shown to keep their families safe, their organizations healthy and their communities together.
2023 Grantmaking Overview
In 2023, The Duke Endowment approved $209.8 million in new commitments, some of which will be paid in future years. 355 grants for a total of $155.4 million were paid, some of which were commitments approved in previous years. In this overview you will find additional information about our 2023 Annual Grantmaking totals.
The Duke Endowment Overview Flyer
This flyer provides an overview of our work, grantmaking and leadership.
Report Finds Rural United Methodist Churches in NC Contribute $735,800 in Annual Economic Impact
Partners for Sacred Places and the UNC Charlotte Urban Institute conducted extensive interviews with 87 rural United Methodist Churches across North Carolina to better understand how programs housed in the churches benefit those who are not members of the congregation. Findings revealed that United Methodist Churches are not only for United Methodists, but are places that serve everyone in the community.
Take a Breath: An Overview of the Selah Stress Management Intervention
Like many people serving in professions in which they feel “called,” clergy are not immune to stress and burnout. The Duke Endowment partnered with the Duke Clergy Health Initiative to study the acceptability, feasibility and effectiveness of stress management tools with the goal of identifying practices that would allow clergy in the North Carolina United Methodist (UMC) conferences, and beyond, to live more fully into the sacred work of ministry. The Selah Stress Management project engaged nearly 300 UMC clergy from across the state to rigorously test three separate stress management practices. As outlined in the report, the findings demonstrate these practices are proven to reduce stress and anxiety and improve physiological responses to stress.
Kinship Therapeutic Foster Care Pilot Implementation: Final Evaluation Report
A study of kinship therapeutic care placements in three counties in North Carolina
2022 Annual Report: Framing the Future
Decisions today become tomorrow’s reality. These visionary Endowment grantees are helping frame our collective future—from expanding health care and supporting foster families to improving education and connecting neighbors through healthy food. Together, we are making a powerful impact on today and adding to the promise of tomorrow.
